In the originally published version of my last post, "Can you metamorphosize?," I incorrectly typed a quote as referring to "syncs from September." I've since corrected it to December, but since errors like these can be serendipitous, I decided to look through my posts from September 2024. I then kept scrolling and looked at some from August as well, including "The Red Redeemed Seer Stone" and "Devil Bunny Needs a Ham." The former post begins with this image and highlights the fact that it contains a single shoe:
About four hours before I revisited that post, Bill left a comment on "Nimrod's Son" saying:
The restoration of Numenor is a pretty big theme in my story. It is a necessary step in getting the prisoners (us) off of this place, as part of the wheat being plucked from among the tares. So I actually don't view the breaking of the world as a sin beyond repair, but something that will be remedied. Some people don't need the intermediary step (likely symbolized by the One Shoe thing in my dreams) but a lot of us will, I think.
The other August post linked above begins with a discussion of a game called Devil Bunny Needs a Ham, the premise of which is that you "have decided to climb to the top of a tall building as fast as you can" -- an obvious link to Nimrod and the Tower. It then includes this image of another game by the same company:
After skimming those old posts, I had a tutoring session focused on pronunciation. I use a book called Pronunciation Pairs which drills pronunciation with lots of what are called "minimal pairs" (words differing in a single phoneme only). The set of pairs we worked on this morning was this one:
There’s a single high-heel shoe and a pear (in a book called Pairs, just as the other pear picture was in a game called Pairs).
Tower, fall, and fire obviously relate to Nimrod/Pharazon, and in that post I had also wondered whether Bill still connected him with bucket (pail) imagery.
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